Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-07-23
The DOOR OF O
Tho Marvellous Curative Powers OF Fresh
Blood In Pulmonary Troubles.


Although consumption is as common
and fatal Il complaint in South America
as III any other portion OF the globe, there
IS u class Of persons resident in that
try among whom the dread scourgc is said
never to have appeared. These are the
inhabitants of the saladeros-a place
where cattle are slaughtered and dressed,
and where sometimes the manufacture OF
beef extract is carried on. a gentleman
recently returned from Argentine Rcpub-
lie, in talking on the subject with q re-
porter, said: 'In former years, cattle in
my country, that is South America, were
slaughtered simply for their hides, bones,
and tallow, which were articles Of export.
The meat, except such as the butchers in
the different cities chose TO carry away,
was stacked ont on the plains and was
eaten up by quicklimc. The places where
the work OF killing the cattle was and is
carried on were and are still known as
saIaderos. They are large Enclosed spaces
in the open country, generally some dis
lance remote from other habitations.
The people employed in the business live
within the incloSure, and form a little
colony by themselves.
From 5000 to TO- 900 head OF cattle are
slaughtered in these saladeros every day.
Necessarily there is q constant odor Of
fresh blood, which to those unaccustomed
to 1T is decidedly unpleasant. Consump-
ton, however, has never been known
among persons who live in these saladeros,
and, strange as it may appear, persons
who were go affected and through some
circumstances or another went into n of
these places to live, have speedily recov-
cred. at first the medical men Of the
country reasoned that their diagnoses were
In error, but as the result was the same
time after time, they came to look upon
the matter in a different light and now
declare that a residence in a saladeros will
heal an liberated lung and entirely destroy
the germs of consumption. The process
is slow, however, and a consumptivc must
be patient and content to live in one OF
these places a considerable time.
persons who go there and remain only
little while show a great Improvement,
but if they come away before they are en-
tirely well they are liable TO relapse into
their former state. / understand that u
residence of from eighteen months TO two
years in n saladeros will cure almost any
case OF phthiSis. One Of the most notable
cures, and one that was primarily the
cause Of inquiries being made on the sub
ject, was that Of Donna Florentina De
Cibels, wife OF Jaime Cibels, OF the firm
OF Cibels Hermanos, Of Buenos Ayres.
Shortly after her marriage she developed
unmistakable signs of pulmonary trouble.
The disease progressed until she became
very feeble, and the doctors advised her
that she had but q short time to live.
Just about this time her husband was sent
out TO take personal charge Of one OF his
fathers saladeros, and Mrs. Cibels, though
almost dead, went with him. She had not
lived there many months before she began
10 show unmistakable signs of improve
ment. She remained there with her hus-
band for four years, and when, at the end
Of that period, she left the place all symp-
toms Of consumption had disappeared,
and Mrs. Cibels is to-day as healthy a
woman as lives in the republic. New
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